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' Nrrn TATES EDWARD ERMOLD, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.-

TREADLE-ACTION.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 427,227, dated May 6, 1890. Application filed September 12, 1889. Serial No. 323,701. (No model.)

To all whom/it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD ERMOLD, of the cit-y, county, and State of New York, a citizen of the United States, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Treadle-Actions, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a combined treadle and clutch-operating device which is to be used for lifting an object and operating a clutching device at the same time, which mechanism can be used on various kinds of machines, but is specially adapted for a corkingmachine for which I have filed an application, Serial No. 309,298, May 1, 1889.

The invention consists in the construction and combination of parts and details, as will be fully described hereinafter, and finally pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a side view of my improved treadle and clutchoperating device applied on a bottlecorking machine, parts being broken out and others in section. Fig. 2 is a similar view of the frame of the machine and treadle, the parts being in different positions and parts being broken out and others in section Fig. 3 is a plan view of the parts shown in Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is an end view of the arm carrying the sliding bolt, which bolt is shown in section; and Fig. 5 is a side view of the same.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

From the frame A of the machine the bracket A projects, which is provided with an eye A in which the sleeve B is mounted and guided to reciprocate vertically, in which sleeve the rod B is mounted adjustably, said rod being provided 011 its upper end with a platform 13, for supporting the bottle in which the cork is to be inserted. The lower end of the reciprocating sleeve B is connected by a link 0 with a foot-lever O, pivoted on the lower end of an arm 0 projecting downward from the front end of the bracket A.

On the sleeve 13 a tappet D is fixed, and the rod 13 can be locked at any desired elevation in the sleeve 13 by a screw D. 011 said tappet D the friction-rollererests, which is mounted on one end of an arm E, fixed on a shaft F, mounted in the lower part of the frame A. Said shaft F is also provided with an arm G, on one side of which lugs G are provided, between which a bar H is mounted to slide, one end of said bar being provided with a top bevel ll. Suitable clips J are bolted or screwed on the lugs G for the purpose of holding the sliding bar between the lugs. A spiral or other spring K has one end secured to a pin K, projecting from the sliding bar H, and the other secured to a pin K projecting from the arm G, which spring K serves to pull the sliding bolt H in the direction toward its beveled end.

On the sliding bar H a lever L is pivoted, which is provided at its upper end with an anti-friction roller L and has its lower end rounded, said rounded end resting against a shoulder N, formed on a lug O, projecting laterally from the short arm P, that projects downward from the arm G. A spring Q is secured to the pin K of the arm G and to the frame A. The vertical reciprocating rod R, which actuates the clutch, is provided near its lower end with a shoulder or offset S, on which the bolt H can act, and a short distance above the same a beveled toe T projects from a sleeve T, formed on an arm T projecting from its frame A.

The operation is as follows: The wheel d, which is driven by the belt g, is rotated at all times; but the shaft driven by said wheel must only be coupled with the mechanism of the corking-machine when a bottle ready to be corked is placed on the platform B that is to say, when a bottle is placed on the platform 13 and said platform is raised,the corking mechanism must be operated only sufficiently to cork this bottle, and must then be thrown out of gear at once, even when the foot-lever is depressed. 13y depressing the foot-lever O the rod 13 platform B and the bottle on said platform are raised and the bottle is brought into proper position for corking. At the same time the free end of the arm E is raised and the arm G swung down, as is also the sliding bolt H, which, acting on the shoulder or offset S of the clutch-rod R, pulls said clutch-rod downward, whereby the clutching mechanism is released and the shaft driven by the pulley d is engaged with the working mechanism of the corking machine,

and the cork is forced into the bottle on the raised platform B. As the arm G swings downward and moves downward the bolt H, the roller L slides down the beveled toe T, whereby the upper end of the lever L is moved in the direction of the arrow 00. The lower end of the lever L abuts against the shoulder N of the lug N, and thereby the bolt H is moved in the direction of the arrow 01:. As soon as the bolt 11 is disengaged from the offset S, the spring XV pulls the clutch-rod R upward, and the mechanism of the corking-machine is at once disengaged from the driving mechanism; The bottle still remains in raised position, but the cor-king mechanism is not operated. WVhen the foot is removed from the foot-lever,tl1e bottle-support descends and the arm G, bolt H, and lever L are brought back into the position shown in Fig. 1.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. The combination, with a vertically-movable clutch-operating rod and a verticallymovable platform or support, of a foot-lever for raising the platform or support, and mechanism operated by the verticallymovable support and serving to actuate the clutchrod, substantially as set forth.

2. The combination, with a vertically-movable clutch-operating rod and a verticallymovable platform or support, of a lever for raising the platform or support, a lever actuated by said platform or support, and a slidin g bolt connected with said lever, which slid ing bolt acts on the clutch-operating rod, substantially as set forth.

3. The combination, with able clutch-operating rod and a verticallymovable platform or support, of a lever for raising the support, a lever actuated by the support, a sliding bolt on said lever, a lever pivoted to the sliding bolt, a fixed beveled toe on which one end of the lever pivoted to the sliding bolt rests, and an abutment on the lever operated by the support, against which abutment that end of the toe-lever rests that is opposite the one resting on *the toe, substantially as set forth.

4. The combination, with a vertically-movable clutch-operating rod and a Verticallymovable support, of a lever for raising the support, a lever actuated by said support, which lever is provided with an abutment, a sliding bolt on said lever, a toe-lever pivoted to the sliding bolt, a spring for pulling said bolt toward the clutch-operating rod, a fixed beveled toe on which the roller on the upper end of the toe-lever pivoted to the sliding bolt can rest, and an adjustable tappet connected with said support, substantially as set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have signed my name in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

EDXVARD ERMOLD.

a vertically-mov- Witnesses:

1VIARTIN PETRY, J OHN ALONZO STRALEY. 

